David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space rocks. Here’s what he has to say about that “high consequence” work, an interstellar comet and living with uncertainty
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In Vattenfall’s central control room, human operators aided by algorithms monitor the electricity grid, and the market, to judge whether their pumped hydro plants ought to be generating or pumping. Kühne adds that the frequency of alternating…
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The Roman-era skeleton of a young woman once believed to have belonged to the earliest known…
Italian centenarians have a higher proportion of DNA inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers…
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How is it December already? What happened to 2025? And how did we suddenly jump from eating Easter eggs to putting up Christmas trees?
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In the 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park, scientists brought dinosaurs back into existence…
Few spectacles in space are as phenomenal as supernovae, but a “superkilonova” may give them a run for their money. This type of cosmic outburst is thought to arise when a supernova cascades into a kilonova, an explosion that isn’t as…